Game apparatus.



.1. H. ELVBRS.

GAMB APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED APB.. 15, 1910.

1,051,718, Patented Jan.28, 1913.

WM dllmncl) *EID sTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

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SAME APPARATUS.

l To alt whom t may concern:

Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus, of which the 'following f -is a specltication. y

This invention relates to game apparatus, and has for an object to provide apparatus of this character which maybe played with a view of furnishing a great amount of amusement.

ln the drawing, forming a portion of this speciication'and in which like numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views Figure 1 is a plan view of my improvedgame apparatus. Fig. 2 represents perspective views of certain of the pieces.

My improved game apparatus comprises a board 1 on which is arranged a pictorial representation of a chart of the world, the part 2 re resenting the. North Pole or one goal of tiie apparatus. The said board has straight longitudinal side edges and arcuate and portions 5'. Merging outwardly from each of the arcuate ends of the game board are extensions, or what might be termed, in connection with 'the game board, iinal goals 4. The board is divided to form two separate sets of playing surfaces 3, each of which is constructed to accommodate the playing pieces of two players. Each playing surface is divided to form a set of ten spaces 7 and a set of ten spaces 9, the spaces 7 and 9 being separated from each other by the intermediate spaces 10. The said intermediate row of the spaces 10 divides the groups or playing spaces 7 and 9 to one side of the axial line of the 4board and also provides communication for the spaces wit-h one another, whereby, for instance, the player moving in spaces 7 is permitted to move in a direction toward his opponents spaces by rst moving in one of the said spaces 10. Each playing surface is also formed to provide a series of spaces 16 which connect with the spaces 7 and 9 respectively, as shown, and as illustrated, the spaces 7 and 9 are each connected with the goal 2 by the route forming'spaces 17.

- Ten pieces such as those illustrated at 10 in Fig. 2 of the drawing are arranged in the. spaces 7 of the playing surface and ten similar playing pieces 11 are arranged in the y Bpeceation of Letters Patent.

Application mea Api-n 15, 1910. serial No. 555,511.

Patented J an. 28,1913.

spaces 9. Each piece 410 is provided prefjerably with a black surfacel2 and a red surface 13. Each piece 1-1 is provided with a white surface 14 and a greensurface 15.

The game is played very much on the :order of the'old and well known game of checkers, the respective players being allowered to move their men into each others spaces but toward the goal 2 if possible with a view to jumping each other, the object of playing pieces as possible to the route formmg spaces 17. After Vreaching the `spaces 17 the player is allowed to move his playingy each player being to move as many of his piecesvto' the goal, after which he is allowed in turn of the players to return to the playing spaces 7 and 9 and to move in turn to the final goal 4, care, of course, being exercised to avoid being jumped by an opponent.

In the initial starting of the game, the player at the left of the lower playing suras shown vat 10 in Fig. 2,`in the spaces 7, arrangin the men so that the black surfaces thereo are exposed to view. The player at the right hand lower corner of the game board places his ten men, such as those shown atll, in the spaces 9 and arranges them with their white surfaces exposed. In proper turn Ithe layer moves his men in his spaces or in t e spaces of his opponent, being restricted of course, to the movement of the men in the direction of the goal 2. The players are supposed to reach the spaces 17 in proper turn and in further turn the players reach the goal 2. At this time the player reverses his playing pieces or men upon the goal so as to expose the opposi designating color which will indicate that a particular playing piece or man has succeeded in reaching the desired goal 2 and is on his return to the goal 4. As stated, each player isallowed to move his playing 'pieces' 4to positions where he can jump the pieces of his opponent and in so doing he is entitled to remove the pieces jumped by him from the board. The player succeedin in returning the greatest number of his p aying pieces to the final goal is decided the winner.

While the game board, .as shown, isdesigned to resent the ap earance of a globe, in view o? the intent ofpthe'game, it 1s obvious that, the particular configuration of the board is immaterial to the playing of the game, provided the arrangement of the ace of the game board places ten men, such playing spaces remains as described. The setdrlike spaces 17 shown may be square orother vsuitable shape and it is understood that as the players of the game succeed in placing their playing pieces or men in these spaces, said pleces are in proper turn of the' players placed in the goal 2.

. ln a game apparatus, a game 4board haring strai ht longitudinal side edges and rounded en s, extensions representing the @nel goals formed on the said ends at ther the opposite ends thereof in a direction toward the latter mentioned goal and communieating therewith, the said board being .a i. also provided with in `rimediate spaces, dividing the said separate groups or s aces from each other ontfo posite sides o 'the axial line of the boar and the said companion groups or spacesbeing disposed adjacent tothe centrally lgcated goal, the said latter mentioned grou 4s representing dif-V ferent courses of trave to and return from the goal, and a pluralityl ot playing pieces adapted to be arranged 1n the playing spaces of each group, the said playing pleces of one group being distinguished from the playing pieces of the other group, and the pieces for each group being provided with dierently colored parte, which are adapted to be exposed or the purpose specled., l

ln testimon whereof l yaiiii my signature in presence o two Witnessesc JOHN .H. ,REVERS Witnesses:

Anm @narrow/amg JOHN P. Briowars. 

